# နံ
## Burmese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nàɴ/
* Romanization: MLCTS: nam • ALA-LC: naṃ • BGN/PCGN: nan • Okell: nañ

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-nam (“to smell”); compare အနံ့ (a.nam., “odor”), and see Old Chinese 聞 (OC *mɯn, *mɯns, “to smell; to listen”) for more (STEDT).

#### Verb

နံ • (nam)
* to give off an offensive smell

##### Derived terms

* ကျွဲနံ (kywai:nam)
* ငြီးစော်နံ (ngri:caunam)
* ဆိတ်နံ (hcitnam)
* ဆိတ်နံကြီး (hcitnamkri:)
* ဆီချေးစော်နံ (hcihkye:caunam)
* ညှီစော်နံ (hnyicaunam)
* ညှော်စော်နံ (hnyaucaunam)
* နံစော် (namcau)
* နံနံ (namnam)
* ပိုးနံကောင် (pui:namkaung)
* ပုပ်စော်နံ (pupcaunam)
* ဘယ်နံရောအခါ (bhainam-rau:a.hka)
* ရည်းစားသနံ (rany:ca:sa.nam)
* ရှမ်းနံနံ (hram:namnam)
* ရေနံ (renam)
* လက်ပပ်စော်နံ (lakpapcaunam)
* လူစော်မနံ (lucauma.nam)
* သားနံပြည် (sa:namprany)
* သားနံရည် (sa:nam-rany)
* သေချင်စော်နံ (sehkyangcaunam)
* အောက်စော်နံ (aukcaunam)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-nam¹ (“side, rib”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-nam (“rib”). Cognate with Tangut [script needed] (now, “rib”) (STEDT); within Sinitic, Luce compares Old Chinese 脅 (OC *hlams, *hlab, “flank, ribs; to threaten”), which doesn't particularly resemble the Tibeto-Burman in phonetics. Note, however, 腩 (OC *nuːmʔ, “belly flesh, sirloin”) (whether the "dip in condiments" sense is related is unclear), particularly as the "sirloin" sense is primarily dialectal (though it does occur in Standard Chinese).

#### Noun

နံ • (nam)
* flank
* rib

##### Derived terms

* ကျောခိုင်းနံစပ် (kyau:hkuing:namcap)
* နံကြား (namkra:)
* နံငယ်ပိုင်း (namngaipuing:)
* နံစပ် (namcap)
* နံစောင် (namcaung)
* နံစောင်း (namcaung:)
* နံညွန့် (namnywan.)
* နံတောင်း (namtaung:)
* နံပေါ်နံကြားထောက် (nampaunamkra:htauk)
* နံဖိုနံမထောက် (namhpuinamma.htauk)
* နံဘေး (nambhe:)
* နံရံ (nam-ram)
* နံရိုး (nam-rui:)
* ဘေးကျပ်နံကျပ် (bhe:kyapnamkyap)
* လှေနံဓားထစ် (hlenamdha:htac)
* လှေနံနှစ်ဖက်နင်း (hlenamhnachpaknang:)
* အနံ (a.nam, “breadth, width; rib, fore flank”)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Pali nāma (“name; immaterial factors such as perception”).

#### Noun

နံ • (nam)
* planet under which a child is born

##### Derived terms

* ဂြိုဟ်ပြေနံပြေ (gruihprenampre)
* နံနှိပ် (namhnip)
* နံနှိမ် (namhnim)
* နံဖက် (namhpak)
* နံမည် (nammany)
* နံသင့်ဂဏန်း (namsang.ga.nan:)
* နေ့သင့်နံသင့် (ne.sang.namsang.)
* ဗုဒ္ဓဟူးနံ (buddha.hu:nam)
* မွေးနံ (mwe:nam)
* မွေးနံဂြိုဟ် (mwe:namgruih)
* မိတ်တူနံတူ (mittunamtu)
* အင်္ဂါနံ (angganam)

### Etymology 4

See the entry below.

#### Noun

နံ • (nam)
* (orthography) abbreviated form of အနက် (a.nak) derived by applying the mode of employing the superscripted dot -ံ in lieu of the de-vowelized ka (က် (k))

##### Derived terms

* နံကျဉ်း (namkyany:)
* နံကျယ် (namkyai)
* နံစံ (namcam)
* နံပြောက် (namprauk)

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AM Finals (18. Side of body)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 42

### Further reading

* “နံ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* naṃ (Latin script)
* 𑀦𑀁 (Brahmi script)
* नं (Devanagari script)
* নং (Bengali script)
* නං (Sinhalese script)
* ၼံ (Burmese script)
* นํ or นัง (Thai script)
* ᨶᩴ (Tai Tham script)
* ນໍ or ນັງ (Lao script)
* នំ (Khmer script)
* 𑄚𑄁 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

နံ
* Burmese script form of naṃ, which is accusative singular masculine/feminine/neuter of န (na, “that”)

### Pronoun

နံ
* Burmese script form of naṃ, which is accusative singular of န (na, “him, it, that”)
* Burmese script form of naṃ, which is accusative singular of နာ (nā, “her, it, that”)
* Burmese script form of naṃ, which is accusative singular of န (na, “it, that”)